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Grateful Dead Live at Long Beach Arena on 1980-12-14

by Grateful Dead

Publication date: 1980-12-14 ( check for other copies)

Topics: Live Recording, audience, Joani Walker, Paul Scotton, Charlie Miller

Collection: GratefulDead

Band/Artist: Grateful Dead

Resource: DeadLists Project

Set 1:
d1t01 - Tuning
d1t02 - Bertha ->
d1t03 - Greatest Story Ever Told
d1t04 - Althea ->
d1t05 - Little Red Rooster
d1t06 - Loser
d1t07 - Me And My Uncle ->
d1t08 - Big River
d1t09 - Bird Song
d1t10 - Passenger
d2t01 - Candyman ->
d2t02 - Looks Like Rain ->
d2t03 - Don't Ease Me In

Set 2:
d2t04 - Tuning
d2t05 - Cold Rain And Snow ->
d2t06 - Samson And Delilah
d2t07 - It Must Have Been The Roses
d3t01 - Estimated Prophet ->
d3t02 - The Wheel ->
d3t03 - Drums ->
d3t04 - Space ->
d3t05 - The Other One ->
d3t06 - Stella Blue ->
d3t07 - Around And Around ->
d3t08 - Good Lovin'

Encore:
d3t09 - Brokedown Palace

Notes

Notes:
-- All disc changes are seamless
-- Rooster and Around And Around with Matt kelly
-- Drums/Space with Airto Moriera and Flora Purim
-- Recorded By Joani Walker near the sbd area
-- Thanks to Joani Walker and Paul Scotton for the tapes

Addeddate: 2007-12-19 04:32:15

Identifier: gd1980-12-14.nak300.walker-scotton.miller.89058.sbeok.flac16

Lineage: Cassette Master (Nakamichi DR-1) -> Sound Devices 744T (24bit/96k) -> Samplitude Professional v9.12 -> FLAC/16

Location: Long Beach, CA

Run time: 181:55.36

Source: Nakamichi 300 -> Cassette Master (Sony D5M/Maxell UDXL-II90)

Taped by: Joani Walker

Transferred by: Charlie Miller

Type: sound

Venue: Long Beach Arena

Year: 1980

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Reviewer: Bobbys_broken_string - - February 3, 2022
Subject: Scrumptious

The proof is in the pudding!

Reviewer: gwapefuldeb - - April 11, 2019
Subject: My most favorite Stella Blue

It comes together on this one and the quality is superb!

Reviewer: zzzboxofrainzzz - - December 14, 2017
Subject: 1980- -the beginning of my grad school concert slowdown

After leaving college in Atlanta, I headed to Lincoln, NE for law school at U of N. Thus began what I call the lean years.... Caught the May shows at Nassau Coliseum while home to Jersey for the summer. And caught one of the Radio City Shows. Other than that, my only shows until I returned to the east coast after graduating in May of 1983 were Des Moines on 12/7/81 and Iowa City on 8/10/82. Listening to this one reminds me why I wanted to take a year off between college and law school!!! Crackling with energy through and through. And, as usual, Charlie and Joni worked their magic!!! Gone are the days.......

Reviewer: timewarpwiretap - - January 28, 2014
Subject: Aaaaaaaaaaaand

we're off! Seldom does a show start with such a bang. Absolute detonation into Bertha and it just goes. They stride the musical landscape as colossal beasts. Don't listen to this while driving - you could die...........

Reviewer: MichaelTurner-sfs - - December 15, 2013
Subject: Another Great Show From Late 1980

I still remember my friends reporting back from this gig - just how amazing the entire show was, not to mention Airto and Flora during drums. And who can argue with a 12-song first set! :)

Reviewer: gordon hensley - - December 13, 2013
Subject: wow, what a show and pristine aud recording

this show gets five stars just for the incendiary other one out of a very cool space. kudos to joani walker and charlie miller for this wonderfully articulate and mixed recording.

Reviewer: Spiral Light of Venus - - December 14, 2012
Subject: Big Brent in Big River

Killer Brent solo in the middle of Big River....

Reviewer: myhungryhippo - - December 14, 2010
Subject: althea

best from the early 80's

Reviewer: The TRUE Bucky - - August 17, 2009
Subject: Drums/Space/chasnting >The Other One

Well, this show, the Drums > Space just rules - anybody catch the small Cumberland Blues tease at the beginning of space? We got this tape 8 months before they broke out Cumby in Long Beach the following Summer & heard the tease before that - odd coincidence if coincidence it was.

The Wheel before drums is so sweet going into D/S & The Other One after the killer Drums/Space/chanting is odd in that Phil BLASTS the band into a third instrumental after verse two that tears the roof off the joint.

Totally forgotten show for these days, but GREAT

Reviewer: Luke the Drifter - - January 4, 2008
Subject: I Concur

Thanks Charlie! This is a definite upgrade over the previous AUD.

Reviewer: Dr.Unclear - - December 29, 2007
Subject: Joani Walker + Charlie Miller = WOW

I can't recommend this recording enough. As a former SBD-snob, I was skeptical that any audience recording could sway me away from my SBD ways... This set of recordings made by Walker-Scotton (processed by Charlie) are unbelievable. Just take a listen. The sound is full and deep, not thin and raspy. The bass is rich, the highs are crisp. The show is fantastic too, but the sound blows me away.

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